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Overall Community Prospect #23

With 62.5% of the vote, Miguel Sano defeats Jacob Turner and is elected Overall Community Prospect #22.

PITCHING PROSPECT #12 JACOB TURNER vs POSITIONAL PROSPECT #12 YONDER ALONSO

Positional Prospects In The Queue: #13 Francisco Lindor, #14 Bubba Starling, #15 Xander Bogaerts

Pitching Prospects In The Queue: #13 Jarrod Parker, #14 James Paxton, #15 Carlos Martinez

 

 OVERALL COMMUNITY PROSPECT LIST:

#01 - BRYCE HARPER - 56.9%

#02 - MIKE TROUT - 60%

#03 - MATT MOORE - 96%

#04 - JURICKSON PROFAR - 51.9%

#05 - JULIO TEHERAN - 60.9%

#06 - SHELBY MILLER - 58.7%

#07 - MANNY MACHADO - 87.7%

#08 - DEVIN MESORACO - 69.4%

#09 - TREVOR BAUER - 55.3%

#10 - WILL MYERS - 73.8%

#11 - JESUS MONTERO - 73.7%

#12 - ANTHONY RENDON - 72.9%

#13 - TYLER SKAGGS - 54.3%

#14 - GERRIT COLE - 51.4%

#15 - TRAVIS D'ARNAUD - 60.9%

#16 - JAMESON TAILLON - 56.1%

#17 - DYLAN BUNDY - 65.0%

#18 - NOLAN ARENADO - 63.1%

#19 - DANNY HULTZEN - 81.1%

#20 - TAIJUAN WALKER - 62.7%

#21 - DREW POMERANZ - 67.9%

#22 - MIGUEL SANO - 62.5%

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JACOB TURNER

by auclairkeithbc on Nov 25, 2025 1:23 PM EST reply actions   2 recs

+1

by cookiedabookie on Nov 25, 2025 1:56 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

Twitter
Mr. Hall, you WILL beat it!

by dbacks25 on Nov 25, 2025 2:16 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

+1

go long with extenze...i do

by angelsownredsux on Nov 25, 2025 4:17 PM EST up reply actions  

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go long with extenze...i do

by angelsownredsux on Nov 25, 2025 4:17 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

by BenMc5 on Nov 25, 2025 4:55 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

+1

The Stirring Straw | @NickPugs97

by Pelferized on Nov 25, 2025 6:21 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

MLBdirt
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by jcmitchell on Nov 25, 2025 8:16 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions  

+1

http://bullpenbanter.com

RIP Randy "Macho Man" Savage

by gatling on Nov 25, 2025 11:26 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

by DeathSpeculum on Nov 26, 2025 10:30 AM EST via mobile up reply actions  

+1

Yoenis Cespedes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW9ge8l3jY8
^ the bottom video ^
MLB Move Type "B" compensation to the post second round, pre third round area.

by SteveHoffmanSlowey on Nov 26, 2025 3:15 PM EST up reply actions  

YONDER ALONSO

by auclairkeithbc on Nov 25, 2025 1:23 PM EST reply actions   2 recs

+1

by auclairkeithbc on Nov 25, 2025 1:24 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

"We did a lot of good things last year, and now we've got Julio ... That does nothing but improve the offense, and we expect to do better. That's our goal, to lead the NFL in everything. Every offensive category." -Roddy White

by Beachy Keen on Nov 25, 2025 2:10 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

Read Me At: Twitter/Blog/MLBBonusBaby /Giants Nirvana

by Gobroks on Nov 25, 2025 3:03 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

+1

I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'

by mikel1218 on Nov 25, 2025 3:08 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

+1

by Noah McKinnie Braun on Nov 25, 2025 4:28 PM EST up reply actions  

10

by cookiedabookie on Nov 25, 2025 4:42 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

never understood the alonso hate on this website.

by Los Gueros on Nov 25, 2025 6:03 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

RIP Greg Halman

by WhyGodWhy on Nov 25, 2025 10:38 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

"No good marriage ends in divorce" - Louis C.K.

by casejud on Nov 26, 2025 12:37 AM EST up reply actions  

20th

http://bullpenbanter.com

RIP Randy "Macho Man" Savage

by gatling on Nov 26, 2025 1:16 AM EST up reply actions  

+1

SF Giants world,
http://forums.sfgiantsworld.net/giants/

by Calvn n Hobbs on Nov 26, 2025 8:56 AM EST up reply actions  

+1

by GrandeRojoMachina on Nov 26, 2025 1:25 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

Da'Sean Butler - A Mountaineer Legend

by McCutchenIsTheTruth on Nov 26, 2025 1:51 PM EST up reply actions  

Give me the guy who is already a slightly above average 1B

Instead of someone who we hope will be an above average pitcher, and has a ways to go to get there.

by auclairkeithbc on Nov 25, 2025 2:57 PM EST up reply actions  

I disagree

Yonder is going to be 25 next year, has yet to show great power in the minors, and is an average defensive first basemen playing a horrible LF due to being blocked. Turner is coming off his age 20 season split between AA and AAA, showing above average peripherals and stuff which projects even better future performance. I will take Turner, if for no other reason than his four year advantage in accumulating MLB value. However, I am concerned Turner is being rushed (an MO for the Tigers with young pitching), and he could benefit from an entire year at AAA next year (unless he dominated and pushed the issue).

by cookiedabookie on Nov 25, 2025 7:12 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Mentioning Alonso's defense in the OF is misguided.

He shouldn’t be playing in the OF. The simple fact that he is a 1B-only prospect obviously hurts his value a bit, as it does all 1B-only prospects, but that is already factored into his prospect status. Many people (seemingly you included) are double counting the fact that he can’t play OF against him. If he hit like he does and played all-star SS, he’d be the #1 prospect in baseball. The fact that he’d be terrible at SS is implied in his 1B-only prospect status. You don’t say, he’s average at 1B, sucks at SS though, as part of an argument against him, even if the Reds attempted to play him at SS. The same is true of playing him in the OF.

by auclairkeithbc on Nov 25, 2025 7:18 PM EST up reply actions  

Fine, ignore that fact

The point still stands that for a 1b-only prospect, he is old and has yet to show anything near elite power.

by cookiedabookie on Nov 25, 2025 7:37 PM EST up reply actions  

What??

I didn’t dispute that. I just said the fact that he is particularly bad at playing SS or C or OF is not all that relevant. It is the expectation for a 1B-only prospect.

by auclairkeithbc on Nov 25, 2025 10:49 PM EST up reply actions  

I am assuming by the double ? my post was taken harsher than intended

I was conceding the LF argument, as you made a good point against using it. But I still believe he will not contribute as much as Turner going forward.

by cookiedabookie on Nov 25, 2025 11:04 PM EST up reply actions  

Oh I misinterpreted your header.

By “Fine, ignore that fact” you just meant forget the part about him playing particularly bad OF, and that your main point was what followed in the body of your post. Perfectly reasonable. I read “Fine, ignore that fact” as something like “Go ahead and ignore the facts if you want, but…”

Reading it again, it is pretty obvious what you meant, and after your clarification, totally obvious what you meant. :)

by auclairkeithbc on Nov 25, 2025 11:14 PM EST up reply actions  

I would be voting Lindor here ...

… but I am going with Alonso of these choices.

by Traindogger on Nov 25, 2025 3:35 PM EST up reply actions  

+1

Yeah, I think that Alonso is way early here, and that fact may cause more deserving prospects (IMHO) like Lindor, Bogaerts, Starling and others to be lower than they should be. Not the only case like this either. That’s the drawback of doing the poll this way, altho there will be pros and cons of whichever way we do it.

by rhd on Nov 25, 2025 10:56 PM EST reply actions  

Reply fail...

Meant to be a reply to traindogger’s post.

by rhd on Nov 25, 2025 10:57 PM EST up reply actions  

The problem is this...

Lindor would always be behind Alonso, no matter how we do it. The community likes Alonso quite a bit more than Lindor.

by auclairkeithbc on Nov 25, 2025 10:58 PM EST up reply actions  

The real problem

is Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem. There’s no perfect way for a community of voters to rank more than 2 distinct choices, despite auclairkeithbc’s very able efforts.

Technically, it doesn’t apply to this list with theoretically only two distinct choices, but there are indirectly more choices that may affect the decision (Prefer Pitcher 2 to Pitcher 1, and Position Player 1 to Pitcher 1, but want Pitcher 2 as high as possible so vote Pitcher 1 to get past him).

by MjwW on Nov 25, 2025 11:26 PM EST up reply actions  

Voting closed

With 54.7% of the vote, Jacob Turner wins this one. :(

by auclairkeithbc on Nov 26, 2025 3:38 PM EST reply actions  

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